“This article is about the first Death Star plans. You may be looking for the second Death Star plans.”
I don’t think he knows about Second Death Star plans, Pip.
Category: Wandering.Shop
People complaining about a non-binary actor being cast as Desire in Sandman. Did they even read the comics?
People complaining about a non-binary actor being cast as Desire in Sandman. Did they even read the comics?
Don’t like the ‘woke’ casting of Netflix’s ‘Sandman’ series? Neil Gaiman doesn’t care
The comic was a genre-busting, gender-bending horror-ish fantasia that simply didn’t care about convention. So when self-proclaimed fans objected to the show casting nonbinary and Black actors, how did they think Gaiman would react?
And not surprisingly they’re also complaining about Black actors, both in roles where the race isn’t a key characteristic and in roles where the character doesn’t technically *have* a race (ex. any of the Endless, who aren’t even human, they just appear in a form familiar to whoever is seeing them – I mean, we’ve seen some of them as cats and Martians).
And the idea that Gaiman is somehow capitulating to “wokeness” or progressiveness…again, did they even read the source material that they claim is being sullied?
Sandman was about stories and change. Dream’s main character arc is realizing that he needs to change, but can’t.
And it was groundbreaking in who it included and what stories it told in the medium…30 years ago.
Freezing the form of the story would be kind of weirdly metatextual, but not nearly as awesome as making something that’s groundbreaking *today* could be.
Kid is issuing a constant stream of complaints about how much he hates the game …
Kid is issuing a constant stream of complaints about how much he hates the game that he insisted on playing.
Kid: “My own bananas are sabotaging me!”
Kid: “My own bananas are sabotaging me!”
Kid’s friend catchup (+/-)
The computer repairs were mostly morning. Midday was friend drama. Former neighbors, whose kid used to play with ours (and still does, just online now), came by to visit the relatives who took over their lease when they moved last year. Kids were playing, catching up, wanted to ride bikes (ours fixed up his old bike, which we never got around to finding a home for when he outgrew it), but of course they didn’t bring a helmet, and he was NOT happy when they had to go
Kid just rererred to Minecraft Dungeons as “McDungeons” 😂
Kid just rererred to Minecraft Dungeons as “McDungeons” 😂
Got out for a bike ride with the kid today & he wanted to stop at a local smoothie place.
Got out for a bike ride with the kid today & he wanted to stop at a local smoothie place. We sat outside and drank the smoothies. (Hard to take them home on a bike.) Closest thing I’ve done to eating in a restaurant in ~15 months.
It wasn’t as weird as a couple months ago when I grabbed coffee and a muffin and ate outside at a planter (not in front of the coffee place). Probably because that was the first time I’d eaten away from home *at all* in a year.
Kid had a good day at school today. (This is rare.) Coffee seems to have helped!
Kid had a good day at school today. (This is rare.) Coffee seems to have helped!
Kid keeps putting on Toccata and Fugue and turning the volume…down.
Kid keeps putting on Toccata and Fugue and turning the volume…down.
#TheFlash vs. the atomic banana peel.Apparently from Justice League of America #154, May 1978. …
#TheFlash vs. the atomic banana peel.
Apparently from Justice League of America #154, May 1978. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that bronze-age #comics could be as goofy as the silver-age ones.
I actually miss degaussing monitors.
In response to a comment about obsolete computer advice
I actually miss degaussing monitors.
covid-adjacent, mailing lists
The insurance company sent the kid a card reminding him it’s important to get the covid-19 vaccine.
Even though they know he’s not old enough.
I figure it’s probably a right hand/left hand thing, where the insurance side gave the outreach side a list without filtering by eligibility, and the outreach side can’t access it for privacy reasons.
Covid vaccine
covid-adjacent, trying to figure out current rules
I went out for a walk this afternoon and saw a lot more people than usual and a lot fewer of them wearing masks (until I got closer to the business-zoned streets), and with the recent change in CDC recommendations, I’ve been trying to find the current status of outdoor requirements in all the local cities, county, and state…and I’m not finding a clear answer.
Getting my second shot tomorrow, figure I’ll keep masking for the next 2 weeks anyway
Apparently if I go out walking to birdwatch or to get somewhere, I still need to keep my distance *and* wear a mask along the way, but if I go out walking to exercise, I only need to keep my distance. ???
Realized I’m stressing out over the vaccine appointment tomorrow because part of me is convinced Something Will Go Wrong before I can get to it.
And partly wondering if it’ll knock me out worse than the first dose did. (Serious fatigue for about 24 hours starting later that afternoon.)
Still, better and shorter than even a “mild” case of the actual virus, though!
I really liked Outer Wilds
In response to a post about “chill games”
I really liked Outer Wilds. A space exploration game that starts in a forest, where you can toast marshmallows on multiple planets, the whole system is in a time loop, environments change drastically between the early and later parts of the loop, and you find other astronauts by listening for the music they’re playing.
Is there a Skrull named Otto?
Is there a Skrull named Otto?
No, brain, you are not allowed to sing Murderbot to the tune of Lollipop
No, brain, you are not allowed to sing Murderbot to the tune of Lollipop
and now it’s latched onto another tune
Murderbot! Murderbot!
Gonna keep you from getting shot!
Sends their drones all around
Hacks computers without a sound
Look out! Here comes the Murderbot!
typed “git checkout maser” hmmm…
Unsafe bottled water in news, pet & human illness
I remember seeing this brand of bottled water a couple of years ago. The marketing-speak on the box really set off my BS detector.”Beyond alkalinity! We add negative ions!”
So I shouldn’t be surprised they ended up putting someone unqualified in charge of the process, *not training him*, and making the stuff actively poisonous. (Though the article doesn’t indicate what caused the cases of liver damage.)
Technician for water co. linked to liver failure says his dog got liver illness
Technician said he only had a couple of hours of training and did what he was told.
When I write something new on my gemlog or import an older blog entry, sometimes I’ll also import…
When I write something new on my gemlog or import an older blog entry, sometimes I’ll also import related posts so I can link within the #gemini capsule instead of out to the web.
I was importing a post on how functional memorabilia is both irreplaceable and easily replaceable depending on how you look at it, and it mentioned my #Mozilla #Coffee mug – which I still have.
Gemlog: (Ir)replaceable?
Blog: (Ir)replaceable?
But yeah, Mozilla Coffee was briefly a thing, back in 2003-2004. It wasn’t a run by Mozilla, it was someone who had a mail-order coffee business who branded some of it and donated half the profits to the Mozilla Foundation.
Gemlog: Remembering Mozilla Coffee
Blog posts tagged Mozilla Coffee